Hey, On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> Thanks for your input Sara, everything sounds very interesting. In all >> fairness I haven't looked at HHVM but I from what you described about >> this particular feature sounds good. >> >> Should I conclude that there's enough interest for this feature and >> move from a gist to a RFC? If so, I would definitely need someone to >> help out with the implementation. > > We already have a bunch of RFCs about strict typing in PHP: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typechecking > > So I personally am not sure we need yet another RFC on the topic - given > that we discussed previous ones multiple times. > > While HHVM is a very interesting project, their use case is pretty > specific and narrow, and, as I understand, connected to a single > application (albeit running huge traffic numbers). So I'm not sure > copying whatever they do is necessarily good for PHP as a whole. HHVM > case is basically static compilation of monolithic application, as far > as I remember, which is not how PHP is usually run. It is true that such > mode negates many arguments against static typing, but it negates them > only for specific narrow case of HHVM, not for PHP as a whole. > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect > SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ > (408)454-6900 ext. 227
You are right, as part of the moving from gist to RFC I'll try and contact the authors and see if they are still interested in this topic. As for the HHVM stuff, lets move to the other thread. Best regards, Florin ---- Florin Patan https://github.com/dlsniper http://www.linkedin.com/in/florinpatan -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
